Solana (SOL)

Solana developers are considering a major change to prevent disagreements between the software programs securing its crypto network. On October 30, 2026, Anza CEO Brennan Watt proposed creating a single official specification covering the blockchain's operating rules. The draft already contains 18 technical sections, including transactions, consensus and validator rewards. The proposal aims to reduce the risk of conflicting interpretations that could disrupt the network.

JPMorgan adds Solana to its institutional crypto strategy. Since October 22, its two tokenized money market funds MONY and JLTXX have been accessible on the network to qualified American investors via Morgan Money. The products also remain available on Ethereum. The change therefore concerns less the creation of new funds than a multichain extension of already operational financial products.

Solana replaced TowerBFT with Alpenglow on its mainnet on October 21, in its most significant consensus change since launch. The new protocol targets a finality close to 150 milliseconds, compared to about 12.8 seconds previously, but part of the planned architecture is still to be deployed.

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In one year, real-world tokenized assets on Solana increased from around 700 million to 4.3 billion dollars, according to Castle Labs. The network thus narrows the gap with Ethereum and now represents 26% of its tokenized value, compared to only 4.5% a year earlier. However, this growth has paused since last month.

Solana has not recorded any reported outage of its mainnet for two years. In a study published on October 16, the Fidelity Center for Applied Technology estimates that the network has made significant progress in resilience, economic security, and performance. However, the assessment remains incomplete: staking, validator hosting, and their software remain concentrated among relatively few actors.

The crypto network Solana plans to activate Alpenglow on October 21, 2026. The update targets transaction finality of about 150 milliseconds, compared to 12.8 seconds with TowerBFT.

Spot ETFs backed by ether recorded $542.1 million in net outflows last week. This is their worst weekly performance since January. The trend is also continuing on Solana, whose ETFs have just ended fourteen consecutive weeks of net inflows.

Solana generates $38.2 million in revenue on dApps in seven days and dethrones Ethereum. Even when adding up its entire ecosystem, Ethereum still can't compete with Solana. A real turning point for the crypto market.

Solana is about to complete an acceleration that began in August. The crypto network must reduce its target time between two blocks from 250 to 200 milliseconds during epoch 1053, expected on October 9. At this pace, five block production opportunities can appear each second, compared to 2.5 when Solana still operated at 400 ms. The blockchain is faster, but its overall theoretical capacity does not double.

BNB Chain has just reached a milestone in the crypto market for tokenized stocks. The network now hosts about 1.1 billion dollars worth of tokenized stocks and ETFs, nearly 30% of a market valued at around 3.7 billion. Ethereum follows with 828 million dollars, ahead of Solana at 738 million. In January, BNB Chain only represented 13% of the sector.

The crypto market starts the month of October with multiple events likely to change the balance of power. Indeed, Bitcoin remains essential, however Ethereum, Solana, Chainlink, and BNB also have catalysts that would attract investors' attention.

Predictive markets still anticipate growth for Ethereum, Solana, and Zcash before the end of this year. However, their bets remain much more cautious regarding the closing price on December 31.

Real world assets tokenized (RWA) on Solana have just reached a new high. Their value rose to 4.6 billion dollars on September 23, according to RWA.xyz data. At the same time, the number of wallets holding these assets nearly doubled in one month.

Solana has tightened its clock a third time since August with 250 milliseconds per block, compared to 300 before. A speed gain, not capacity. Coincidence or not, the announcement comes on the same day the network shows a record of more than 5 billion monthly crypto transactions.

Solana has just activated on its mainnet an upgrade awaited for several months. The maximum size of a transaction increases from 1,232 to 4,096 bytes, or 3.3 times more space. The new v1 format has been active since the beginning of epoch 1,035 on September 15. For the crypto ecosystem, the change mainly targets operations too large to fit until now in a single transaction: zero-knowledge proofs, multisignatures, and new onchain signature systems.

During the shortened week of September 8, U.S. crypto ETFs recorded nearly $263 million in net outflows. The positive gathering of products related to Ether, XRP, and Solana was masked by withdrawals concentrated on Bitcoin ETFs.

BNB Chain proclaims its top global position in RWA growth with +3.6 billion dollars in 2026. Impressive figure on paper. But on the same day, DeFiLlama shows Solana regaining the lead in crypto application revenues and DEX volume, far ahead. Two rankings, one real question: who generates the activity?

On September 9, 2026, Solana issued 263,000 tokens in 24 hours, an absolute record. Yet, it is not this figure that impresses the most. With 5.09 million dollars in daily revenues, Solana outpaces all competing blockchains. Between memecoins and regulated markets, discover how the crypto network combines volume and economic solidity.

During the session on September 8, XRP ETFs recorded $1.55 million in net inflows. Such a result places XRP ahead of Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana for the day, without questioning the cumulative dominance of Bitcoin funds.

Robinhood Chain generated about 33 million dollars in fees in fifteen days, compared to 11 million for Solana and 9 million for BNB Chain over the same period. According to a Bernstein note reported by The Block on September 8, the network launched on July 1 now produces between 2 and 4 million dollars in daily fees. Robinhood would keep about 90% of it. For this new branch of its crypto activity, the numbers are starting to become significant.

Solana strengthens its crypto transaction ceiling to catch up with Ethereum on complexity, during the same week Ethereum, on its side, is preparing the end of the obligation to hold ETH to transact. Two competing networks, two opposite strategic projects, and a shifting balance of power quietly taking shape behind the scenes.

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Tokenized stocks approached $3 billion in weekly spot volume at the beginning of August. In its analysis published on September 3, Grayscale ranks Robinhood Chain, BNB Chain, and Solana among the main networks of this new segment of the crypto market. Liquidity is growing fast. However, the use of these assets in onchain finance remains limited to about 5% of the market.

Over the past thirty days, Solana has captured $348 million in net flows towards tokenized real-world assets. The blockchain thus outperforms other networks during this period, according to data provided by the RWA Foundation. This momentum raises the value of RWAs distributed on Solana to $4.23 billion. However, it is not enough to dethrone Ethereum across the entire market.

American Bitcoin ETFs attracted $101.15 million on September 2nd. This rebound comes after an outflow of $236.5 million the previous day. Ethereum and XRP ETFs ended positive streaks that had captured $1.62 billion and $170 million respectively. At the same time, Solana products also closed the session in the red. These movements reveal a temporary rotation of capital towards Bitcoin rather than a general withdrawal by institutional investors.

Usually, the month of September is a risky period for crypto investments. Historically, Bitcoin shows its weakest monthly performance during this period, while central bank decisions can intensify volatility. This year's context adds many uncertainties, including a probable rate hike in the United States. Despite these threats, three cryptos still have strong arguments to get through the month. These are Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana.

After swallowing more than three billion dollars in nine days, Bitcoin ETFs suddenly hit the brakes, leaving the king of crypto stuck below $81,000 while Ethereum and Solana quietly keep marching ahead.